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{"title":"Archaeology as Hyperlocal Practice: A Case Study in the Material Afterlives of the Cold War","authors":"Emma Gilheany","doi":"10.1111/aman.70000","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aman.70000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7697,"journal":{"name":"American Anthropologist","volume":"127 3","pages":"660-662"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144894170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction: On Vanishing Fieldsites","authors":"Myriam Amri, Zsuzsanna Ihar","doi":"10.1111/aman.28100","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aman.28100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7697,"journal":{"name":"American Anthropologist","volume":"127 3","pages":"633-635"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144894186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Politics of Resilience and Materialism in Archaeological Explanation","authors":"John M. Marston","doi":"10.1111/aman.70002","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aman.70002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7697,"journal":{"name":"American Anthropologist","volume":"127 3","pages":"656-659"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144894185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Against Natural Resources: Engaging With Indigenous Knowledge to Imagine the Past and the Future of the Amazon","authors":"Mariana Petry Cabral","doi":"10.1111/aman.70001","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aman.70001","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While writing these lines, heavy rains flooded my hometown, Porto Alegre, in southern Brazil, for over a month. This city became another icon of the global climatic crisis, submerged in an unprecedented tragedy that affected more than 90 percent of the municipalities in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. On the opposite side of the country, the Amazon is experiencing the worst drought ever recorded. As scientists, environmentalists, and politicians debate the reasons for these crises and strategies to mitigate their impacts, the concept of “natural resources” takes on a prominent role, describing unbalanced relationships between nature and people.</p><p>Drawing from the definition by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP <span>2009</span>, 9), “natural resources are actual or potential sources of wealth that occur in a natural state, such as timber, water, fertile land, wildlife, minerals, metals, stones, and hydrocarbons.” Naturalized as it is, this concept reinforces the division between nature and culture and its exploitative basis. It implies a hierarchical relationship in which humanity occupies a superior position and thus commands nature. Nature is a “source of wealth.”</p><p>This division has guided archaeology, a discipline that relies on our expertise to distinguish between nature and culture, as we learn to separate—for example—flaked rocks from naturally broken pieces or an anthropogenic mound from a natural feature. Our ability to discern between anthropogenic and natural processes sustains our disciplinary specificity.</p><p>Here, I intend to challenge and blur this distinction to incite our archaeological imagination to envision different possibilities of being human, of social existences, and of explanations.</p><p>I engage with the work of three Indigenous and Afrodiasporic scholars from Brazil: Ailton Krenak (<span>2023</span>), Antônio Bispo dos Santos (<span>2023</span>), and Glicéria Tupinambá (<span>2023</span>). Their work emphasizes the active, sentient, and affective character of land/earth.1 I will use it along with lessons I received from the Wajãpi Indigenous People, with whom I have worked since 2009 (Cabral <span>2015, 2022</span>).</p><p>Drawing from discussions in Indigenous ethnology in South America (De La Cadena & Blaser 2018; Gomes et al. <span>2020</span>; Oliveira et al. <span>2020</span>), I use the concept of different worlds to emphasize the understanding that, beyond cultural difference, there are diverse definitions of what reality is. Anthropologists Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser (<span>2018</span>) invite us to use the concept of “Pluriverse” to open space in our imagination for the existence of multiple worlds. Embracing this concept, we create room to challenge ourselves <i>to think with</i> different worlds.</p><p>Beyond recognizing differences, this choice is also a political stance, allowing other categories to exist. It reveals their boundaries and limitations as a path of dism","PeriodicalId":7697,"journal":{"name":"American Anthropologist","volume":"127 3","pages":"652-655"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aman.70001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144894123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Battle in the Clouds","authors":"Amy Moran-Thomas","doi":"10.1111/aman.28075","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aman.28075","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This narrative experiment brings together scenes from my family histories in western Pennsylvania coal country, alongside ongoing visits to learn about rising health issues in the region today. Increasing numbers of residents express concerns about chronic problems such as young cancers, and many people worry about potential exposures coming from past and present energy infrastructures. These growing health concerns, some of them my own, also brought me to revisit Rachel Carson's medical writings from her family home in western Pennsylvania. Looking out from her childhood bedroom with my mother and returning to Carson's archival notes on “transmissible cancers” and her childhood essay, “A Battle in the Clouds,” these descriptions circle long-accumulating debates about chronic diseases and their causes and effects over time. Returning to varieties of changing clouds today, this essay reflects on how chronic exposures—unevenly accumulating in bodies and landscapes and across generations—show “undone sciences” of many kinds in need of collective attention. It traces how families are grappling with the sense of needing to connect their own dots; the ways local communities are coming together to process displaced responsibilities; and the implications for health, public trust, and care when so much is left in clouds.</p>","PeriodicalId":7697,"journal":{"name":"American Anthropologist","volume":"127 3","pages":"594-610"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aman.28075","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144894228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Whose “Problem” Is the Climate? Deep Time Perspectives and the Contemporary Lens","authors":"Shanti Morell-Hart","doi":"10.1111/aman.28103","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aman.28103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7697,"journal":{"name":"American Anthropologist","volume":"127 3","pages":"649-651"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144894317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Braided Storytelling as a Method in Archaeology: Reimagining the Sugpiaq Past Through Story","authors":"Hollis K. Miller,&nbsp;Allison Pestrikoff,&nbsp;Tamara Swenson","doi":"10.1111/aman.28098","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aman.28098","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article explores various storytelling methods in archaeology, as situated within a community-based project in Old Harbor, Alaska, a Sugpiaq village in the Kodiak Archipelago. We draw from both Indigenous and feminist writings to argue that storytelling is necessary in order to make sense of empirical data. Different methods of storytelling have a place in the practice of archaeology, from the initial formation of a research question to the sharing of results with community members and heritage professionals. Within our community-based work, it is crucial that we make our results and interpretations legible to the Old Harbor community. Here, we review existing information from historical accounts and archaeology to construct story models that generate predictions for new archaeological research into the Russian colonial period at the Ing'yuq Village site. We then braid these story models together with an imagined narrative about the Sugpiaq experience of initial Russian arrival in their homelands and artistic interpretations of the Ing'yuq site. Taken together, these different storytelling strategies create a more nuanced picture of Sugpiaq lifeways at Ing'yuq—a picture that includes the historical, emotional, and experiential context of relations to this specific place on the land.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":7697,"journal":{"name":"American Anthropologist","volume":"127 3","pages":"581-593"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144894086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Black Anti-bodies and the Lexicon of Racism: A Thought Piece","authors":"Dána-Ain Davis","doi":"10.1111/aman.28096","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aman.28096","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This thought piece explores the laboring and birthing experience of two Black reproducing bodies and how they are shaped by obstetric racism. I think through their medical encounters by considering how Black bodies are degraded, ushering them toward mistreatment. The term, Black antibodies is the framing used in this piece as an explanation to understand what produces the traumatic repercussions of racism that are weighed down by disposability, neglect, and medical abuse.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":7697,"journal":{"name":"American Anthropologist","volume":"127 3","pages":"629-632"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144894087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Climate the Antagonist","authors":"Catherine Kearns","doi":"10.1111/aman.28102","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aman.28102","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Pugilistic or militaristic metaphors are everywhere in conversations on environmental crises, not least in the perceived trenches of climate change. The “fight like hell” that Solnit incites belongs to a broader semantic field of agonistic conflict and “war talk” on the rise in public discourse about impending climate-related changes and political decision-making (e.g., Mangat and Dalby &lt;span&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;).1 This battle rhetoric is provocative, but often elliptical: whom or what is the fight against? Whose battles? Many who deploy this language in relation to climate change mitigation, like Solnit, are really depicting a fight against fossil fuel company executives and agents, neoliberal leaders, private equity firms, and capitalist institutions who block progressive policies for reducing global carbon emissions to the mystical “net-zero.” War talk like this thus often targets the figures or apparatus responsible for &lt;i&gt;anthropogenic&lt;/i&gt; climate change (Moore and Antonacci &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;; see e.g., Mann &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;) (Figure 1).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But for many publics, it slips into a fight &lt;i&gt;against&lt;/i&gt; climate, pitting the survival of humanity against material phenomena like weather events or quantified CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; levels, and aims to marshal a range of tactics—from reducing everyday meat consumption to lobbying for renewable energies. In doing so, the language converts what many might rightly recognize as a multiscalar and political problem, like climate or climate change, into a reified, singular antagonist. Such metaphors are deemed important for rallying publics to the cause of fighting for present and future conditions, and for regrouping people away from the ranks of defeatism or doomism. At another more historical register, they belong to a wider “renaturing” turn toward biopolitics and environmental determinism by those who would see human history as a series of human-nature conflicts driving civilizational rise and fall (on determinism and renaturing, see e.g., González-Ruibal &lt;span&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;; Arponen et al. &lt;span&gt;2019&lt;/span&gt;). With all due disrespect to Jared Diamond (&lt;span&gt;2005&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If climate or climate change is akin to an oppositional battle “out there,” it can be compartmentalized and categorized in distinction from other kinds of agency. Such a move reinforces our long-lived, persistent Western binary of nature versus culture. That rhetorical division is not just intellectually insufficient but has real material effects, as policymakers can claim that they are tackling the “climate problem” reified and quantified as carbon emissions, not the neoliberal capitalist relations and problems of social and environmental justice that oppress many communities, especially in the Global South (Sultana &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That move also implies that we all agree on what “climate” is and how to quantify it, as if it is a universal, a familiar linguistic trick of the Global North. But universality is constructed and created","PeriodicalId":7697,"journal":{"name":"American Anthropologist","volume":"127 3","pages":"645-648"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aman.28102","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144894316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil","authors":"Neena Mahadev","doi":"10.1111/aman.28097","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aman.28097","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7697,"journal":{"name":"American Anthropologist","volume":"127 3","pages":"670-671"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144894168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}